Saturday, 30 July 2016

Spellbound (1945)


The solution to the mystery relies on far too pat "dream detective" work and Ingrid Bergman's psychoanalyst's flight from police with a mentally ill stranger is a subplot rehashed from previous Hitchcock successes presumably as a counterbalance to this film's otherwise psychobabble plot, but Spellbound is still a joy full of humour, some tongue-in-cheek sexism (and some not) and is great fun with a Dali dream sequence and an intriguing Freudian mystery.

★★★★☆

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